Responding deputies called for a severe child injury response team to conduct an investigation based on the life-threatening nature of the alleged crime, according to Jensen.

Detectives went to a home in the first block of Boston Avenue north of West San Carlos Street in unincorporated San Jose, where they interviewed the child's biological parents and collected evidence, Jensen said.

Zabala was identified as the suspect and has been booked into Santa Clara County Main Jail, where he's being in lieu of $500,000 bail, according to online jail records.